Author Bios
Staff
Francis Horton
Francis is a Citizen, Soldier, student and all kinds of things in between. Occasionally he writes, more often he drinks and catches up with TV shows and movies. He doesn’t have a lot of spare time, but he is always willing to have his ego stroked. You can read his stuff at hortonrants.com, a site he runs with his sister, or follow him on twitter at twitter.com/fhorton
Francis is an Aries
A. David Pinilla
David Pinilla is the host of various podcasts, such as Back Seat Producers, The Podge Cast and The Man Cast. Along with Luke Meyer, he is the co-owner of Spooky Outhouse Productions.
He has been married since 2002 to his beautiful wife, Melina, a law student, whom he met while they were both working at a local grocery store in their teen years, and whom he will do battle with into eternity. Together, they have three cats, Tsunade, Maia Dow and Kuchiki, all of whom he is very fond.
In the future, he would like to learn fencing, go skydiving, become a published author, solve world hunger, and become a crime-fighter by night.
Dr. Lucias “Luke” Meyer
Lucias Meyer is an optometrist who resides in St. Louis, Mo with his lovely wife, Kim, and their two dogs. In his free tiem he hosts The Podge Cast and works really hard as co-owner of Spooky Outhouse Productions. Really hard.
Sarah Horton
Sarah Horton is a gamer, a mother, a working drone and a fan of strong drink and stronger words. She has a website with her brother at hortonrants.com, and can be contacted at sarahhorton72@gmail.com.
Authors
Tim White
Tim has been playing role-playing games since 1985, and has run dozens of campaigns in dozens of systems.He also wrote and co-wrote a number of Character Provided events for the RPGA in the 90s.
Tim is a Software Development Engineer for a Fortune 500 Telecommunications Company based in Denver, CO.
James Abendroth
James Abendroth has been a gamer for over half his life. He has recently bought a house with his wife and his cat in the Dallas area.
Aron Head
Aron currently lives and writes in the very exciting city of Arlington, Texas. A long time blogger, he regularly updates his own site The Bastard’s Blog and is a frequent contributor to Newsarama. His geek is strong having collected comics since 1975 and played RPGs since 1980, but has never LARPed.
He maintains that Padme had it coming.
Andrea Sarbanes
Andrea Sarbanes is a second year law student and closet gamer with an emphasis on the Cthulhu mythos and survival horror.
Tony #2
Tony #2 is the author of “The Lava Lamp,” and a regular contributor to world peace, an inventor, as well as a philathropist of “coolness.” At age nineteen he invented “The Australian flag replica,” an exact replica of the flag of Australia. In an attempt to get the invention patented, the patent clerk remarked that it wasn’t an original invention, but merely an Australian flag. Tony #2 replied it was absolutely an invention because it did indeed mimic the very behavior, design, and fabric of the Australian flag in a way not seen since the manufacturing of the actual flag of Australia. The patent clerk denied his claim and the president of the United States will not return his phone calls. The “Australian flag replica” has not yet received any corporate backing. It is still the source of much controversy today.
On his twenty-fifth birthday, Tony #2 declared that as a contributor to world peace throughout his whole life, having started no wars, having killed no one, and having successfully fought global warming with what he called his “coolness,” he would devote the next seventy-five years of his life to spreading “coolness” around the world as a charity, rather than money, which only corrupted people and helped society function. Tony #2 claims to have made hundreds of lives “cooler” through his charity work, which consisted of hanging out with people who in his presence supposedly “became cooler.” Often his charity would show up unannounced at people’s doors and spread “coolness” completely unprompted and uninvited at meal times and on holidays, when people needed it most. “It feels good to just drop in and do good charity work for somebody–especially a family like this who needs coolness more than ever. Pass the potatoes.”
Tony #2 soon sensed however that he was too good at making people cooler, and started limiting his activities–doing his charitable dating less, because supposedly every girl he met turned “ice cold.” But the real source of his philanthropic troubles was a lack of financial funding as well as a personal bankruptcy of coolness which he believes came as a result of giving away his “coolness” too freely in the early stages of the charity. Thus Tony #2, against his ideals, had to turn his philathropic gesture into a for-profit venture to get back into the black, and will now spread his coolness around anyone who buys him a beer. Tony #2 hasn’t hung out with anyone since 2005.
Meg McG
Meg is cohost and Producer for the Gaming podcast Brilliant Gameologists, a licentious, edifying, and controversial show about tabletop games and the people who play them. She is a skeptic, a Mainer, a Pug Dog Lover, a scientist, and a proud Gamer.
Chris Amelung
Chris Amelung is an old-school nerd, Mac user, graphic professional and a gamer. He blogs erratically at http://simianlovedoc.livejournal.com and on Twitter as @simianlovedoc.
Jim Brown
Jim Brown was born on August 3rd, 1967 just north of Brownsville, TX. His father was top screw for a team of cowpunchers and his mother was an award winning chicken sexer. During high school his ability to sleep with his eyes open garnered him much fame but did not do much for his chances to get into a college. This resulted in his decision to sign onto the crew of a tramp steamer in the hopes of seeing the world. This hope ended on the sixth day of the voyage when the ship was unexpectedly seized off the cost of Panama by commandos posing as Venezuelan separatists.
Jim spent the next decade in a labor camp, working every day in a bauxite mine until being freed by a group of 4 Vietnam vets that were working as heroes-for-hire. Returned to his grateful family in Texas Jim began gaming as a therapeutic outlet. He currently spends most of his time living in Minnesota with his 6 dogs, 3 ghosts and the computer he calls, “Sandra”.
Philip Hicks
Born in St. Louis, MO. Phil graduated high school early and attended several colleges after that. He finished college a few years ago with a BS in computer technology and networking security.
He works for Reputable news agency that has several global markets. He is married to Becky and has one child, age 3 and another on the way. Phil likes to say he is a man of many talents, from art to rebuilding car engines.
He loves anything that gets the imagination going, movies, music, games (whatever’s on his mind).
Tony Mast
The Pimp of the Internet Tony Mast takes a break every once in awhile from movies to impart his pimping wisdom to the masses. We’re all glad that he does.
Paul Lyons
Paul likes to draw. He likes anime, heavy metal, and hockey. Borderline schizo, sort of fine tits, though.